Acknowledging that our school district will be changing over the next two years, we want to communicate details regarding building configuration and staffing at the elementary level for the 2017-2018 school year.

In November 2017, the District began a strategic planning process to help chart decision making over the next two to five years. The process will include community involvement and be completed before the end of this school year. The strategic plan may include further ideas to make elementary school transitions as easy and effective as possible, but will not revisit prior decisions. For more information, please visit the strategic planning page here.

The District will not incur additional expenditures in busing of students. Currently about 87% of students are eligible to ride a bus in our District, and we do not foresee additional costs associated with the new elementary configurations.

A. Because state aid is based on a per pupil formula, declining enrollment is also a major factor in balancing the District's budget. Over the last 9 years, K-12 enrollment in our District has declined from 1,438 to 1,181 students. We expect a further decline over the next several years.

A. Our District hired the Applied Population Laboratory at UW-Madison to provide us projections. The study uses a baseline model that averages the past ten years of trends in enrollment, migration, and births. This data is projected forward to anticipate future enrollments in the District.